Pony Canyon has announced that it is now streaming the first 15 episodes of the ongoing Tohai – Ura Rate Mahjong Tohai Roku TV anime series with new English subtitles on its official YouTube channel.
An English subtitled trailer of the series was posted on the company’s X/Twitter account.
🀄All Mahjong Fans! 🀄
— PONY CANYON ANIME (@ponycan_anime) January 29, 2025
‘Tohai – Ura Rate Mahjong Tohai Roku’
is premiering on our YouTube tomorrow! ❄️https://t.co/CDvjmUlkWg
*Some regions may be unavailable.#Tohai #アニメ凍牌 #凍牌 @tohai_anime
As of the time of this writing, the English subtitles option on the YouTube video’s settings are mislabeled as Japanese. Additionally, the availability of the 15 episodes is limited and blocked in the following regions: Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Macao, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
Tohai is also streaming on the following streaming platforms in various countries and territories:
- • MOD/Hami Video
- • My Video
- • FriDay
- • Bahamut
- • LiTV/ofiii
- • KKTV
- • LineTV
- • Catchplay
- • Tropics Youtube
- • aniverse
Tohai first premiered in Japan on October 5, 2024 and is expected to run for two cours. The second cour began with the anime’s 13th episode in Japan on January 10, 2025.
Jun Hatori (Too Cute Crisis) is directing the anime series, with Mariko Kunisawa (Berserk of Gluttony) as series screenwriter, Sayaka Anesaki as character designer, and Yusuke Shirato and Yuki Kishida as music composers. East Fish Studio is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Kohsuke Tanabe as Kei
- • Ai Fairouz as Amina
- • Shunsuke Takeuchi as Doujima
- • Chinatsu Akasaki as Yuu Katsuragi
- • Tsuyoshi Koyama as Noriyuki Takatsu
Koji Shinasaka‘s original suspense mahjong manga ran in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion magazine from June 27, 2006 to April 12, 2011. Twelve total tankobon volumes were released in total.
The manga was later followed up with Tohai: Hitobashira-hen, Tohai: Minagoroshi-hen, and the ongoing Tohai: Cold Girl, which started in the same magazine on September 28, 2021 and features Amina as the main protagonist. Seven tankobon volumes of Cold Girl have been released as of June 2024.
The series has also inspired several spin-off works and a 2013 live-action film adaptation.
Pony Canyon describes the main synopsis of the Tohai anime series as:
Money, women, organs. Kei, a high school boy, frequents the underground mahjong parlor teeming with desires, earning him the moniker “K of the ICE” in the underworld due to his cold-hearted strategy and stylish gameplay. Rumors also circulate that he keeps a girl at his home.
Source: Pony Canyon Official Twitter, Pony Canyon YouTube Channel
